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“Break the Ceiling” with Fidji Simo | by Xiaoyin Qu | Medium

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Fidji Simo is the Vice President of video at Facebook, who is responsible for virtually everything Facebook’s over 2 billion users see when they open the big blue app, from video to advertising. She has a very accomplished product career and an amazing story: During the fireside chat, Fidji did a Q&A with MBA students and here are the key highlights from the event: Initially I started to volunteer a lot of product management work and eventually half of my work were PM job Q: “You became a PM from a non-technical role. Was it hard to transition to PM? How did you earn respect from engineers?” Fidji: I did product marketing when I first joined Facebook. Initially I started to volunteer a lot of product management work to help where needed and eventually half of my work was a PM job. So the PM manager at the time told me, you should interview to be a PM and that’s how I did it. Coming from a non-technical background, I learned some very basic coding myself so that I could better communica

We were honored to invite Fidji Simo to come to Stanford Graduate School of Business to talk to female MBAs who aspire to be product managers. 6 min read Mar 8, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Fidji Simo is the Vice President of video at Facebook, who is responsible for virtually everything Facebook’s over 2 billion users see when they open the big blue app, from video to advertising. She has a very accomplished product career and an amazing story: She joined Facebook in 2011 as a product marketer in 2013, she pivoted to product management from a non-technical…

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